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The 2011 Black Hat conference is officially over, and the results of this year’s Pwnie Awards are out. The Pwnie Awards recognize superior brilliance in the field of information security, as well the most spectacular failures within the field. Of course, award winners get to go home with a My Little Pony spray-painted in gold, though the winners that fall into the latter category may not want to keep the reminder.

The winners are chosen by a committee of security industry stars from nominations submitted from the information security community. This year’s awards featured nine categories which included Best Server-Side Bug, Best Client-Side Bug, Best Privilege Escalation Bug, Most Innovative Research, Lifetime Achievement, Lamest Vendor Response, Best Song, Most Epic FAIL, and Epic Ownage.

But speaking of GeoHot, the Best Song award went to George Hotz, AKA GeoHot, for his epic rap about his legal battles with Sony who sued the hacker over his PS3 3.55 jailbreak that revealed the vulnerabilities of PS3’s security. You can watch the video below, but be warned, there’s some NSFW language in there.

As for the Epic Ownage category, nominees included Anonymous, LulzSec, and WikiLeaks – all big names in the world of hacking this year. However, the winner came out as Stuxnet. The Pwnie website points out that Stuxnet’s rootkit destroyed centrifuges, its worm disrupted national nuclear programs, and has written 0day exploits and rootkits for equipment that no one has even heard of. Clearly, they totally 0wn.